# OpenAI Has 200 Employees in London. It Just Leased Space for 544.

- slug: openai-has-200-employees-in-london-it-just-leased-space-for-544
- date: 2026-04-15
- category: Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI signed a lease for 544 desks in London. It employs roughly 200 people in the UK. Four days earlier, it killed the data center project that would have given it the compute to justify either number. The office is real. The infrastructure is not.

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